I'm just impressed by his effortless jumps...
Of course figure skating should be judged as a total package, being so young and lack of experience, he needs lots more to go to be top of the world. But on the other hand, in Olympics anything can be happened.

Hanyu's presentation style isn't my cup of tea, but I acknowledge that he is quite good and can certainly beat Chan. Given that neither skater typically goes clean over the two programs, if Hanyu can make fewer errors than Chan it should be very close between them.

Based on scoring, I think he can zamboni during the entirety of SP & LP and still win OGM.

Yeah of course, like at the GPF 2012

Patrick isn't unbeatable, he peaked and while he holds his level quite well (which is impressive given that this level is anything but low), others have closed the gap. But for whatever reason there are still people doing this 'he will win anyway'-boo-boo-whining stuff, which the last season clearly showed isn't true. If Patrick manages to skate well, he has all the chances to win the OGM. But he is defintily not a shoe-in, not in the least.
Yuzuru is amazing and I really, really love him, but he's a little bit of a wildcard to me. He never managed to connect to his Notre Dame FS, and it will depend on his new FS a lot. But if he really manages to skate well at the Olympics, I'd expect a monster of a score. It depends on his health too...
He's still 18 though, who knows how good he can become in the years to follow!

My favorite for the OGM right now though would be Javier. His skates from Euros last year were by far the closest to clean we've seen this last season from the top contenders, and it would have easily made him the world champion.

Patrick isn't unbeatable, he peaked and while he holds his level quite well (which is impressive given that this level is anything but low), others have closed the gap. But for whatever reason there are still people doing this 'he will win anyway'-boo-boo-whining stuff, which the last season clearly showed isn't true. If Patrick manages to skate well, he has all the chances to win the OGM. But he is defintily not a shoe-in, not in the least.

What we learned from Worlds last year is that there are only a handful of men capable of beating him. Ten could not have skated much better and still lost, so probably Hanyu, Dai, Javier, and Evgeny make up the list of men who could beat Patrick in Sochi. If Plushenko is clean, the arena is going to erupt and his scores will be through the roof; Patrick would have to skate his best to win.